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Folkscanomy Miscellaneous
Folkscanomy Miscellaneous
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20,629
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4.6M
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Miscellaneous Folkscanomy-Bound materials, awaiting sorting.
Folksoundamy: Movies after Y2k
Folksoundamy: Movies after Y2k
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3,034
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210,978
VIEWS
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Genealogy
Genealogy
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42,045
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14.4M
VIEWS
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The Archive's ever-expanding collection of genealogy resources includes items from the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Robarts Library at the University of Toronto ; the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library ; Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah;>, the National Library of Scotland , the Indianapolis City Library's Indianapolis City Directory and Yearbooks Collection , The Leo Baeck Institute Archives of German-speaking Jewry Leo Baeck...
alfirdwsiy1433
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218,096
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10.6M
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Delaware County District Library (Ohio)
Delaware County District Library (Ohio)
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47,455
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12.5M
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The Delaware County District Library (DCDL) and its branches are vibrant centers of activity for residents and visitors in Delaware County. DCDL provides an inviting environment that encourages reading, learning, community discussion, and supports lifelong discovery. We are proud to be recognized for engaging minds, expanding opportunities, and improving the quality of life for Delaware County residents.
Catalogs Collection
Catalogs Collection
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28,286
ITEMS
12.1M
VIEWS
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The Internet Archive Catalogs collection is a growing assembly of various catalogs.
Manga: Unsorted Collection
Manga: Unsorted Collection
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29,477
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5.3M
VIEWS
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Manga (漫画) are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art. In Japan, people of all ages read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, suspense, detective, horror, sexuality, and business/commerce, among...
SmackJeeves Web Comics
SmackJeeves Web Comics
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34,758
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5.2M
VIEWS
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Smack Jeeves was a website where creators could upload and share their original webcomics. It was shut down on December 31st, 2020.
Topics: comics, webcomics
MBLWHOI Library
MBLWHOI Library
collection
13,033
ITEMS
28.6M
VIEWS
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Books from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) .
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Collections from Massachusetts libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, schools, and other cultural heritage institutions digitized in partnership with Digital Commonwealth and the Library for the Commonwealth program of the Boston Public Library. Initially funded through a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Indonesian : Books by Language
collection
24,429
ITEMS
261,831
VIEWS
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Texts with language specifed as Indonesian
Arxiv.org
Arxiv.org
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1,076,011
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57.2M
VIEWS
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Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is funded by Cornell University Library , the Simons Foundation and by the member institutions .
Topics: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics,...
Portuguese : Books by Language
collection
95,717
ITEMS
298,408
VIEWS
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Texts with language specifed as portuguese OR por
Shareware CD-ROMs
Shareware CD-ROMs
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3,534
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13.7M
VIEWS
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One of the most historically important artifacts to come from the home computer telecommunications revolution was shareware CDs, compact discs put out by companies containing hundreds of megabytes of shareware. Initially containing less than the full capacity of the discs (600mb, later 700mb) these items eventually began brimming with any sort of computer data that could be packaged and sold. As material "ran out", that is, as sellers of these CDs found they were unable to easily find...
Topics: Mark Fugitt, Mike Laybourn, sysop, RBBS software
Naval Postgraduate School
Naval Postgraduate School
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51,654
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8.4M
VIEWS
by Dudley Knox Library
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Included here are  Masters' Theses, Doctoral Dissertations and other degree-earning works by students of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, as well as some NPS faculty-authored Technical Reports.  This content has been shared from the NPS Archive: Calhoun .
Software Box Art
Software Box Art
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5,915
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5.8M
VIEWS
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The box and packaging art is as important as any other part of the software that has been sold over the years; in earlier years of the computer industry, it had to serve as the entire pitch. These are attempts by many groups and individuals to capture that unique artwork, even as the software itself lives on.
Gazettes of India
Gazettes of India
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599,119
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24.6M
VIEWS
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This collection contains a mirror of publications from the Gazette of India. The collection is maintained by Public Resource and is not affiliated with nor does it represent an official source of such documents and is provided as a public service to make the Official Journals of the Republic of India more widely available. The Official Source of Gazette of India publications is located at egazette.nic.in and it is published by and under the authority of the Directorate of Printing of the...
Topic: Official Gazette
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives - Digital Library
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives - Digital Library
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10,614
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14.2M
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The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (SLA) is an international system of 21 branch libraries and an institutional archives. Consisting of locations in Washington, D.C., New York, and the Republic of Panama, our library collections include over two million volumes in subjects ranging from art to zoology. Consisting of more than forty-four thousand cubic feet, our archival records chronicle the growth and development of the Smithsonian throughout its history.
Claremont School of Theology Library Donation
Claremont School of Theology Library Donation
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97,756
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884,559
VIEWS
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Claremont School of Theology is fully recognized and approved as one of thirteen official theological schools of The United Methodist Church, with close relationships with other Protestant denominations, especially the Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Details about this donation of material to Internet Archive can be found at: https://archive.org/details/claremontschooloftheologybooksjune2020
University of Toronto - John M. Kelly Library
University of Toronto - John M. Kelly Library
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23,945
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30.9M
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The John M. Kelly Library is the largest federated college library at UofT. It is also one of more than 40 libraries at the university. Although our collections cover a wide range of subjects, we tend to focus on humanities disciplines including Catholic theology, the Middle Ages, book history and media, Celtic Studies, and English, French, Italian, Slavic and German literature. The John M. Kelly Library's print collection of over 300,000 volumes is developed in support of undergraduate...
Marygrove College Library
Marygrove College Library
collection
89,320
ITEMS
816,201
VIEWS
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When Marygrove College closed in 2019, the Board of Trustees donated the library to the Internet Archive for digitization and preservation. With more than 70,000 books and nearly 3,000 journal volumes, the Geschke Library is a well-curated, world class collection with strengths in the humanities, education, and social justice.  Video about the reopening online . The collection reflects the strong historical and cultural influences of the city of Detroit, bringing a uniquely Black...
Washington University Libraries
Washington University Libraries
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88,150
ITEMS
6.1M
VIEWS
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The Washington University Libraries are a collaborative network of 12 academic libraries working to connect users with resources across the campuses of Washington University in St. Louis.
New York Public Library
New York Public Library
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149,919
ITEMS
34.3M
VIEWS
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Books contributed by the New York Public Library .
Turkish : Books by Language
collection
32,175
ITEMS
249,984
VIEWS
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Texts with language specifed as turkish OR tur
Media History Digital Library
Media History Digital Library
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9,484
ITEMS
15.2M
VIEWS
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A conservation and access project for historical printed materials related to cinema, broadcasting and recorded sound. Visit our new website and read our blog at http://www.mediahistoryproject.org/ Search Media History Digital Library titles: Advanced Search
Newspaper Archive
Newspaper Archive
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397,793
ITEMS
1.9M
VIEWS
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NASA Network Resource and Training Site
NASA Network Resource and Training Site
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244,956
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13.4M
VIEWS
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Documents and information from the NASA Network Resource and Training Site.
East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals 1850-1950
East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals 1850-1950
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377,706
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4.9M
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The collections here include a range of East Asian (plus Singapore) newspapers, journals, and magazines published in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages from 1850-1950.
The Arvind Gupta Collection
The Arvind Gupta Collection
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16,207
ITEMS
7M
VIEWS
by Arvind Gupta, Toymaker
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This collection contains a library of works uploaded by Arvind Gupta, Toymaker. This library of books, audio, video, and other materials from and about India is curated and maintained by Public Resource. The purpose of this library is to assist the students and the lifelong learners of India in their pursuit of an education so that they may better their status and their opportunities and to secure for themselves and for others justice, social, economic and political. This library has been...
Truyen Audio Collection (www.truyenaudio.org)
Truyen Audio Collection (www.truyenaudio.org)
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41,858
ITEMS
12.9M
VIEWS
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A collection of audio files referenced by Truyen Audio.org.
CIHM Monograph Collection
CIHM Monograph Collection
collection
78,052
ITEMS
44.5M
VIEWS
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The University of Alberta Library Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM) monographs is a collection of publications dating back to the early 17th century that are about Canada, or written and published by Canadians, scanned from microfiche. The full set of metadata records for this collection can be downloaded from:  https://doi.org/10.7939/DVN/10710 The CIHM Monograph Collection represents an important part of our national story. It is a collection of...
Topic: University of Alberta - The CIHM Monograph Collection
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Books sponsored by the Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library. The Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, established by Louis Agassiz in 1861 and rededicated as the Ernst Mayr Library in 1995, joins in supporting the work of the Museum by providing and preserving information resources for the research and teaching activities of the Harvard community. The Library holds more than 304,072 volumes of monographs and journals, including recently added materials...
Newman Numismatic Portal
Newman Numismatic Portal
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66,338
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5.4M
VIEWS
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The goal of the Newman Numismatic Portal is to create the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopedia of American and Colonial coinage, currency, realia, and related correspondence and published literature. Materials from the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society’s coin collections and supporting reference libraries will be digitized along with Washington University Libraries’ collections and made freely available to an online community of scholars and enthusiasts.
Archives électorales du CEVIPOF Sciences Po
Archives électorales du CEVIPOF Sciences Po
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43,889
ITEMS
2M
VIEWS
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Depuis 2014, le CEVIPOF (UMR mixte de Sciences Po et du CNRS) et la Bibliothèque de Sciences Po mettent progressivement à disposition sur Internet Archive et la Bibliothèque numérique les archives électorales de 1958 à 2012. Ce fonds, constitué à  partir des années 1950 et toujours enrichi, rassemble le matériel électoral publié à l’occasion d’élections en France et diffusé auprès des électeurs.  Recherche par nom de candidat possible (NB...
Topics: France élections législatives, France élections présidentielles, France general elections,...
Harvard University
Harvard University
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293,454
ITEMS
14.9M
VIEWS
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Books sponsored or contributed by Harvard University
Biostor
Biostor
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242,909
ITEMS
8.2M
VIEWS
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Scientific articles extracted from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Topic: biodiversity
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The Gerstein Science Information Centre is the University of Toronto's flagship library supporting the sciences and health sciences. The largest science and health science academic library in Canada, Gerstein has a collection of over 945,000 print volumes of journals and books, and also provides access to over 100,000 online journals and books. The Gerstein Science Information Centre's collection consists primarily of material on the sciences, including the health sciences, medicine, physics,...
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Archive
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Archive
collection
418,675
ITEMS
43.5M
VIEWS
by ERIC
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The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present. ERIC also contains a growing collection of materials in Adobe PDF format. ERIC's mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic...
Global Libraries
Global Libraries
collection
138,809
ITEMS
9.3M
VIEWS
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Material in this collection comes from around the world via the Internet Archive Table Top Scribe System. More partners are joining every day and together, we are creating a global community of digital libraries.
The DOOM Level CD Collection
The DOOM Level CD Collection
collection
90
ITEMS
9.5M
VIEWS
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"Doom WAD is the default format of package files for the video game Doom or its sequel Doom II, that contain sprites, levels, and game data. WAD stands for "Where's All the Data?" Immediately after its release in 1993, Doom attracted a sizeable following of players who created their own mods for WAD files—packages containing levels, graphics and other game data—and played a vital part in spawning the mod-making culture which is now commonplace for first-person shooters....
Defense Technical Information Archive
Defense Technical Information Archive
collection
586,590
ITEMS
29.1M
VIEWS
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The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) is the premier repository for research and engineering information for the United States Department of Defense. DTIC's Suite of Services is available to DoD personnel, defense contractors, federal government personnel and contractors and selected academic institutions. The general public can access unclassified, unlimited information, including many full-text downloadable documents, through the public Web site, DTIC Online. DTIC's collections...
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78rpm shellac discs donated from the Batavia Public Library Thorpe Collection to the Archive of Contemporary Music and digitized by George Blood, LP for the Internet Archive. Turntable used for 78rpm digitization of four simultaneous recordings with different needles. https://archive.org/details/BTB-10202016 contains details of the physical materials.
Topics: 78rpm, thorpe, ARC, Archive of Contemporary Music
Source: 78
Natural History Museum Library, London
Natural History Museum Library, London
collection
10,400
ITEMS
12.9M
VIEWS
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Books from the Natural History Museum Library, London .
Zines
Zines
collection
67,824
ITEMS
7.8M
VIEWS
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This is a collection of zines that can be found on the Archive. Zines are self-published, non-commercial publications with typically small circulations. They cover a wide range of topics with many focused on politics, art, creative writing, and personal theory.
Majority World Collection
Majority World Collection
collection
20,882
ITEMS
5.9M
VIEWS
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The Majority World Collection contains materials from Theodore Sedgwick Wright Library at Princeton Theological Seminary pertaining to theology or religion in Africa, Asia, or Latin America. Digitization was funded by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation . This content is also available in the Theological Commons .
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg
collection
65,240
ITEMS
46.4M
VIEWS
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Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain.
Topic: Texts
Russian : Books by Language
collection
335,803
ITEMS
245,254
VIEWS
collection

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Texts with language specifed as russian OR rus
PDFy Mirrors
PDFy Mirrors
collection
18,969
ITEMS
18.3M
VIEWS
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This collection contains automatically mirrored copies of all public documents uploaded to PDFy , a PDF hosting service. Unlisted ("private") documents are not included in this collection.
Topics: pdf, mirror
The New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden
collection
10,614
ITEMS
19.6M
VIEWS
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Books from The New York Botanical Garden
a Collection of Transcluding Items
a Collection of Transcluding Items
collection
38,525
ITEMS
13.9M
VIEWS
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A collection of items that are transcluding other items.
Folkscanomy: Games
Folkscanomy: Games
collection
3,185
ITEMS
3.7M
VIEWS
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Folksonomy : A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content; this practice is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging. Coined by Thomas Vander Wal, it is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy. Folkscanomy : A collection of books and text derived from the efforts of volunteers to make information as widely available as possible. Because the...
Banned Books
Banned Books
collection
5,710
ITEMS
3.5M
VIEWS
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Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times, when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century, book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural, political, moral, and religious orthodoxy. Thanks to the ALA for...
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News Homepages
News Homepages
collection
2,311
ITEMS
757,622
VIEWS
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Screenshots of news homepages from around the world. Curated by an open-source bot at  https://homepages.news
Topics: news, screenshots
Folkscanomy Computer: Inbox and Miscellaneous
Folkscanomy Computer: Inbox and Miscellaneous
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5,024
ITEMS
1.2M
VIEWS
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Unsorted general computer-related works and books, intended for further sorting in the Folkscanomy Computer collection.
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
collection
23,856
ITEMS
11.7M
VIEWS
by SMH
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The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The Sun-Herald, is published in tabloid format. It is available at outlets in Sydney, regional New South Wales, Canberra and South East Queensland (Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast). Three employees of the...
Bengali : Books by Language
collection
50,257
ITEMS
166,825
VIEWS
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Texts with language specifed as bengali OR ben
California Revealed
California Revealed
collection
118,446
ITEMS
4.5M
VIEWS
by California Revealed
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California Revealed is a State Library initiative to help California’s public libraries, in partnership with other local heritage groups, digitize, preserve, and provide online access to archival materials - books, newspapers, photographs, audiovisual recordings, and more - that tell the incredible stories of the Golden State. We also provide free access and preservation services for existing digital collections, including technical advice and guidance, for partner organizations with in-house...
Canadian Government Publications Portal
Canadian Government Publications Portal
collection
75,704
ITEMS
14.2M
VIEWS
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Internet Archive Canada, with advice and assistance from government and university librarians across Canada, have digitized more than 70,000 Canadian Government publications and made them freely available online. This page is meant to serve as a portal for discovering publications digitized by Internet Archive Canada, to be a reference for future digitization initiatives and provide incentive to grow the list of titles that have been preserved and dedicated to the public domain. Beginning in...
Video Game Magazine Inbox
Video Game Magazine Inbox
collection
8,893
ITEMS
2.5M
VIEWS
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A collection of magazines, not yet sorted, but destined for the videogame magazine collection.
PIMS - University of Toronto
PIMS - University of Toronto
collection
9,384
ITEMS
14.7M
VIEWS
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“The Pontifical Institute has long appeared to observers to be the most substantial centre of medieval scholarship in North America.” —GEORGE HOLMES, Chichele Professor of Medieval History, All Souls College, Oxford The Institute Library, which opened in 1929 with a mere 3,000 titles donated by St Michael’s College, today has holdings of about 120,000 volumes whose lustre is enhanced and complemented by specialized collections of 9,000 reels of microfilm and 50,000 slides. The...
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
collection
17,854
ITEMS
16.5M
VIEWS
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The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library. We work with North Carolina cultural heritage institutions to scan, describe, and publish historical materials online, which in turn increases access to and use of their collections. The items available here are only part of the online collection - see the complete collection at DigitalNC.org.
Topic: yearbooks
Yearbooks
Yearbooks
collection
99,689
ITEMS
9M
VIEWS
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Annual compilations of the student body of high schools, colleges, academic institutions, and academies. Often published by the student body itself, and a compilation of history, biography and world outlook. 
STARGATE files
collection
12,106
ITEMS
1.2M
VIEWS
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Sets of volumes of compiled knowledge.
Chicago Daily Tribune 1926-1996
Chicago Daily Tribune 1926-1996
collection
44,011
ITEMS
214,741
VIEWS
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The Chicago Daily Tribune / Chicago Tribune was a daily newspaper published in Chicago , Illinois , United States , from 18 47 . It was the first newspaper to publish the Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln . The paper achieved international fame for its multi - f acet ed and objective reporting style , earning the nickname " The World 's Greatest Newspaper ". The Tribune was the first newspaper to use the te legraph , and it also published the first daily weather report . The paper 's...
Columbia University Libraries
Columbia University Libraries
collection
43,732
ITEMS
18.5M
VIEWS
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Books from Columbia University Libraries . Our sub-collections: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection Missionary Research Library pamphlets WWI Pamphlets 1913-1920 Microfilm from Columbia University Libraries Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library Chinese law registers 玲瓏 Ling Long Clean Water and Air Act Amendments of 1971/77 Hebrew Manuscripts
Servants Of Knowledge
Servants Of Knowledge
collection
55,187
ITEMS
3M
VIEWS
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The Servants of Knowledge gratefully acknowledges the help of the Indian Academy of Sciences in providing space and logistical support for our efforts in Bangalore. The Servants of Knowledge is a group of volunteers dedicated to promoting the increase and diffusion of knowledge through bread labor and public work. Jai Gyan! This library of books, audio, video, and other materials from and about India is curated and maintained by Public Resource. The purpose of this library is to assist the...
Topic: India
Software Library: Amiga
Software Library: Amiga
collection
13,362
ITEMS
3.8M
VIEWS
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These emulated Amiga software programs consist of demos and music disks from 20 years of community coding. A thank you to the Scripted Amiga Emulator project, as well as db48x and bai , for all the hard work with this experiment. 
Manga: Artbooks and Art Collections
Manga: Artbooks and Art Collections
collection
1,161
ITEMS
3.9M
VIEWS
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Manga (漫画) are comics created in Japan, or by Japanese creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art. In Japan, people of all ages read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, suspense, detective, horror, sexuality, and business/commerce, among...
Installation and Driver CD-ROMs
Installation and Driver CD-ROMs
collection
6,198
ITEMS
2.2M
VIEWS
by Various
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CD-ROM images of driver discs, installation media, and documentation companions that were included with hardware or operating systems.
Taxonomy Archive
collection
155,498
ITEMS
3.1M
VIEWS
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Journals publishing taxonomic work
Topics: biodiversity, taxonomy
Kentucky Digital Newspapers
Kentucky Digital Newspapers
collection
86,480
ITEMS
11.2M
VIEWS
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Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program (KDNP) at the University of Kentucky Libraries, and available in the Internet Archive, provides preservation and access to historic and contemporary newspapers from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. New content is added daily.
The Stacks: Collections of Incoming Contributions
The Stacks: Collections of Incoming Contributions
collection
47,826
ITEMS
4.4M
VIEWS
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If you are someone who is uploading a lot of items to the Internet Archive that are in the open source collections and believe they should be sorted into other collections, please contact Jason Scott at stacks@textfiles.com to arrange for an inbox in this meta-collection.
CD and DVD Coverdiscs
CD and DVD Coverdiscs
collection
10,103
ITEMS
3.7M
VIEWS
by Various
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In the early years of home computer ownership, magazines and newsletters might come bundled with a floppy disk to make it easier to load up programs discussed within their pages. These attached floppies (and cassettes as well) might have one or two programs on them. After the dawn of CD-ROMs, packed-in CD-ROMs (and later DVD-ROMs) expanded out into lauded utilities and games, and also included drivers, demos, promotional material (including game trailers), and ultimately could be entire...
Topics: software, magazines, cd-rom, dvd-rom, dvd, cd